Snapshot of Syllabus of Samvida Shikshak Exam
English:
A.
Some questions based on use of articles, prepositions, conjunctions, verbs, modals, adverbs,
tenses, finite non finite clauses.
Some questions based on number, gender, pronouns.
Transformation of sentences
active to passive
direct to indirect narration
Some questions based on vocabulary
opposites
synonyms
one word substitution
Some questions on reading comprehension. (The questions will be asked upto graduate level),
Unseen passage.
B.
Fiction:
1. Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
2 Charles Dickens - A Tale of two Cities
3. Indian: Anita Desai- Bye Bye Blackbird
Drama:
1. Bernard Shaw - Arms and the Man
2. William Shakespeare - The Tempest
3. Indian: Rabindranath Tagore- The Poet and Pauper.
Poetry:
1. P.B. Shelley - Ode to Skylark
2. Indian: Sarojini Naidu- The Broken Wings
3. Rabindranath Tagore- Song No. - 1 of The Gitanjali
4. William wordsworth- The World is too much with us
5. Robert Frost After Apple picking
6. Robert Browning - The Last Ride Together
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Prose:
1. Francis Bacon- Of Studies, Of Friendship
2. Charles Lamb- Dream Children
3. Indian: Jawaharlal Nehru- Teenage, Nirad C. Chaudhuri - My Mother
Figures of speech and forms of poetry
A. figures of speech- simile, metaphor, personification, paradox, irony
B. forms of poetry-sonnet, ode, lyric, elegy, satire
C. Indian writing in English
Short Story:
1. R.K.Narayan- Swami and Friends
2. Mulk Raj Anand - The Lost Child